linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH RFC 03/13] charsets: utf8: Add unicode character database files

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Date:   Fri, 12 Jan 2018 19:24:07 -0500
From:   Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:     Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.co.uk>
Cc:     david@...morbit.com, bpm@....com, olaf@....com,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel@...ts.collabora.co.uk, alvaro.soliverez@...labora.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 03/13] charsets: utf8: Add unicode character database
 files

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 05:12:24AM -0200, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> From: Olaf Weber <olaf@....com>
> 
> Add files from the Unicode Character Database, version 7.0.0, to the source.
> A helper program that generates a trie used for normalization from these
> files is part of a separate commit.

It looks like the latest version of Unicode is 10.0.0.  Once we pick a
Unicode version, changing will be painful; but in the absence of
interop requirements, is there a reason to stick with Unicode 7?  Why
not take the latest version of Unicode and then freeze on it?

    	     	    	       	       	   - Ted